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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2487576, member: 19463"]Don't buy a fake from a fake seller. Buy a replica from a maker that services the jewelry market and people interested in antiquity in countries that do not allow private ownership of the real thing. Obviously some are better than others and none are as good as the real thing. For example Antiquanova makes owls in silver for 40 euros and 3 euros for pot metal. I consider the style one of the worst of their replicas but that may be because I know the look of Athenian coins better than I do that of coins from Naxos. Their silver replicas are marked with their company symbol but their pot metal ones are not on the theory that they are, after all, pot metal. There are other makers. </p><p><a href="http://www.antiquanova.cz/Tetradrachma-stribro-999-Atheny-455-449-pr-Kr-Recko-replika-mince-d58.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquanova.cz/Tetradrachma-stribro-999-Atheny-455-449-pr-Kr-Recko-replika-mince-d58.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiquanova.cz/Tetradrachma-stribro-999-Atheny-455-449-pr-Kr-Recko-replika-mince-d58.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2487576, member: 19463"]Don't buy a fake from a fake seller. Buy a replica from a maker that services the jewelry market and people interested in antiquity in countries that do not allow private ownership of the real thing. Obviously some are better than others and none are as good as the real thing. For example Antiquanova makes owls in silver for 40 euros and 3 euros for pot metal. I consider the style one of the worst of their replicas but that may be because I know the look of Athenian coins better than I do that of coins from Naxos. Their silver replicas are marked with their company symbol but their pot metal ones are not on the theory that they are, after all, pot metal. There are other makers. [url]http://www.antiquanova.cz/Tetradrachma-stribro-999-Atheny-455-449-pr-Kr-Recko-replika-mince-d58.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
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